George Patey is a public relations man whose reach exceeds his grasp, but within his grasp, he has the entire wall against which Al Capone's gunmen shot down seven rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day of 1929. Patey was in his native Vancouver one morning in 1967 when he heard on the radio, that the famous wall on Chicago's North Clark Street was about to be demolished. He immediately got on the telephone and, for a price he keeps to himself, bought it. Says he: "They tore down the wall and shipped it to...
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